5 Simple Ways to Kick Start Your Goal-Setting
By Michaela
Scherr
There are five important, yet simple steps to follow, which I believe are
necessary for seemingly impossible goals to be achieved.
Step Number One
Spend some quiet time and write down exactly what the change or changes
will be and why you want them, this is the first crucial step towards
achieving goals. At this stage, write only what it is you’d like to achieve
and why. The ‘how’s’ and ‘when’s’ can come later.
Step Number Two
This step too is very important, and it has everything to do with you
accessing a state of inner peace. The peace I write about has little to do
with listening to relaxation music, essential oils in a burner or harps
playing (though they can help). Achievement of your goal requires having
peace through a quiet mind and inner calmness regardless of the chaos around
you and how long this chaos reigns. When you have this (peace) you’ll have
greater clarity, your creative self will make itself known, you’ll gain
foresight into how you will achieve your outcome, focus, and negativity will
have minimal impact.
There are individuals who know how to step into the state of peace;
however others may require some gentle guidance.
If you find achieving a peace state challenging, there are 5 options
listed below that may help you:
1. Find yourself some quiet time when you know you’ll be undisturbed and
paint, draw, write, or map out all you can about your intended outcome.
2. Embark on a meditation program that will teach you a selection of
meditation techniques.
3. If you’re willing to be coached, find yourself a reputable personal
coach who can help you work through limiting beliefs and help you discover
what your values are.
4. Seek out a mentor. This would be someone whom you admire, is
inspiring, motivating, and successful, be available to you and who is a
fundamentally positive, peaceful and calm individual.
5. Embark on a spiritual development program.
The world of alternatives is huge. To find something you’ll be happy with
may take a little research, start by asking friends and family members to
point you in the right direction. If they’re just not into that kind of
thing it may be wise to broaden your search through the internet, books,
and/or other members of your community.
Step Number Three
This important step is about gifting yourself with a fresh outlook on
life.
Looking at things in a totally different way and from a new angle will
give you a more global perspective revealing greater possibilities and may
be achieved by:
1. Asking parts of you what is important to you, each time you receive an
answer continue by asking why that answer is important. When you can go no
further ask yourself “how can you change this issue?” This may sound a bit
strange, however from experience this works.
2. Transformational Coaching.
3. Understanding your motivation or lack of motivation. Once you’ve
gained an understanding of you, you’re in a position to become proactive
into making necessary changes toward achieving your goal.
4. Reading autobiographies of how successful people did it.
Step Number Four
By now you know exactly what you want; you can step into profound
inner peace at will; have picked up great self-help and self-healing tools;
eliminated limiting beliefs; and worked out your values. Now it’s time to
finally pinpoint exactly how you’re going to go about achieving your goal.
There will be many ways on how you’ll achieve your goal; however the time
frame will vary greatly depending on what you need to acquire first. Maybe
you need:
1. To acquire new skills such as sales, writing, technology, or marketing
skills etc. for that new career you’ve always wanted to be part of.
2. To seriously start networking yourself and your product. Become known
in your community.
3. To gather a team of like minded individuals that will motivate and
inspire you into achieving your goal, whatever it is. Constant negative
input can quickly extinguish dreams.
4. Start an investment portfolio for your future if you’re after a secure
financial future.
5. Read as much as possible on whatever your goal is, it will give you a
fundamental understanding of what it’s all about.
Step Number Five
This last but important step (they're all important) is the calculation
of when your outcome will finally eventuate. If you’ve followed the previous
steps adding Step Number Four into the equation, you’ll be able to determine
the time you can celebrate in a really, huge way of finally reaching the pot
at the end of your rainbow!
1. Calculate the time it takes to complete your training courses or
higher education.
2. Investment portfolio goals as discussed with your investment adviser.
3. Discuss with your business/personal development/transformational coach
how many sessions and ‘home-play’ will be required of you for you to achieve
your goal.
4. Factor in time it takes for people to get to know you if you’re
selling a product or you are the product. Speak with a marketing
professional or someone ‘in the know’ first.
5. It’s important to be realistic about timeframes. Sometimes our
greatest plans will go awry and will take much longer than expected (much
like newly discovered actors and singers who have been plugging their trade
for many years before hitting the big time!)
Sometimes, incidents will happen and be out of our control no matter what
we do. Like my computer taking with it all my electronic office equipment
earlier in 2005 (one of the most frustrating experiences I’ve ever had). To
keep going required perseverance, patience and flexibility – it would have
been so easy to give up!
You can achieve your goals with inner peace, perseverance, patience,
flexibility and sometimes viewing situations from an entirely different
angle.
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Michaela is a Transformational Coach, certified practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic
Programming (NLP), writer, and Metaphysician who is totally committed to
helping others create positive and action oriented changes to their lives.
Michaela is the author of several e-books and publisher of a monthly
newsletter called From My Desk.
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